Meshack Mabogoane National Sorghum Breweries, (NSB), South Africa’s first, major black economic empowerment company, is again at the centre of controversy. The fatal shooting recently of top executive Khathuthseloe Mutshekwane has revived the doubts that surrounded NSB last year. As a flagship of black empowerment, its fate has serious political and business implications as it […]

A behind-the-scenes battle is raging in the government as state communication agency Sacs fights for its life, reports Gaye Davis A battle for the heart and sole of government communications policy is underway. The first shots have been fired in a series of behind-the-scenes skirmishes between government spokespeople and the central state information agency, the […]

Parliament is too big for its building and most political parties believe that the number of MPs should eventually be reduced, writes Marion Edmunds SIZE does count — especially when it comes to organs of government. Many people believe that the national Parliament could function more effectively if the National Assembly and the Senate were […]

Reg Rumney Between 1990 and 1994 the income of squatters in=20 Gauteng declined in real, or adjusted-for-inflation,=20 terms while that of hostel residents stayed much the=20 same and those living in houses were much better off. This is the finding of a Unisa Bureau of Market=20 Research report on income and spending of black=20 households […]

The process leading to the acceptance of the new Labour Relations Bill is more important than the outcome, argues Andrew Levy In terms of a long-running show, with episodes regularly ending with the parties close to the edge of the cliff, the negotiations over the draft Labour Relations Bill seem to have (for the time […]

AECI’s biotechnology research gives rise to two new=20 chemical projects, reports Karen Harverson ANGLO American Industrial Corporation (Amic) subsidiary=20 AECI may soon be involved in projects worth more than=20 R700-million which, with its R300-million lysine=20 project already in progress, have the potential to add=20 about R500-million a year to the company’s R5,5-billion=20 All three ventures […]

THEATRE: Mark Gevisser FAUSTUS in Africa! is a work of inventive genius; a=20 total vision fashioned by artist/film-maker/director=20 William Kentridge and puppeteers Adrian Kohler and=20 Basil Jones. As with Woyzeck on the Highveld, these=20 three collaborators have used a classic German text –=20 this time Goethe’s Faust — as an excuse, really, to=20 invent a […]

Jonathan Ancer Rasping Rocker Joe Cocker could be the nemesis of Riani De Wet, North-West Province’s MEC for Media, Arts and This week, the 27-year-old ANC MEC was battling for her political survival amid allegations that she had used government funds to hire a plane to take her and her friends to Joe Cocker’s concert […]

South Africa may have to forego its high-tech medical achievements in order to meet the needs of its many citizens. Rehana Rossouw reports Have a heart, says the head of Groote Schuur Hospital’s transplant unit, Dr Del Khan, to health authorities who are considering clamping down on high-tech surgery across the country. “Most people might […]

Gaye Davis JUSTICE Minister Dullah Omar said on Thursday he would be meeting with President Nelson Mandela, “hopefully within the next few days”, to finalise the procedure for appointing members of the Truth Commission. Urgency will be the watchword: the 18-month lifespan of the Truth Commission started ticking away this week, when President Mandela’s signature […]